Top rated unpleasantly surprising movies that are also challenging
Check out today’s highest ranked unpleasantly surprising and challenging movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are unpleasantly surprising and challenging, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
Last Update Mar 01 2021
1 Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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- 2012-06-08 | Comedy / Romance
Cast
- Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass
Rating
6.8
2 Blue Ruin (2013)
When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
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- 2013-09-09 | Crime / Thriller
Cast
- Macon Blair, Devin Ratray
Rating
6.8
3 Sinister 2 (2015)
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
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- 2015-08-19 | Horror
Cast
- James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon
Rating
5.8
4 Lore (2012)
Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.
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- 2012-08-02 | Drama / War
Cast
- Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina
Rating
6.9
5 Better Watch Out (2016)
On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
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- 2016-09-22 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller
Rating
6.7
6 The One I Love (2014)
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.
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- 2014-08-08 | Romance / Comedy
Cast
- Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss
Rating
6.9
7 Calibre (2018)
Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
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- 2018-06-22 | Thriller / Horror
Cast
- Jack Lowden, Martin McCann
Rating
6.5
8 The Lost City of Z (2016)
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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- 2016-10-15 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson
Rating
6.3
9 Spanglish (2004)
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and the Claskys struggle to share space while raising their children on their own, and very different, terms.
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- 2004-12-17 | Comedy
Cast
- Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni
Rating
5.9
10 Catfish (2010)
Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, has no idea what he's in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on Facebook, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby's family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby's attractive older sister, Megan, a musician and model. Prompted by some startling revelations about Megan, Nev and his buddies embark on a road trip in search of the truth.
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- 2010-09-17 | Documentary
Cast
- Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman
Rating
6.9